Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church is a patriarchate of Orthodox Christianity in full communion with the other patriarchates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 988, Vladimir the Great of the Kievan Rus's conversion to Christianity marked the beginning of the Russian Orthodox church, and since then the people of Russia have adhered to their own patriarchate based out of Moscow. By 2011, there were 150,000,000 adherents to Russian Orthodoxy worldwide, with the religion being spread from Moscow to the Russian Far East by the Russian Empire's conquests.